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Raced a Ferrari F50

Nah....J/k but on my way to work I drove behind it for 10 minutes. It had to have been the most impressive car I've ever seen in person. So low, tires so big, so wide...So envious. I couldnt even disrespect it by trying to race him. I just followed in suit like I should....man..

nice...
back in my pre-wrx days when i had my sebring i found myself sitting next to a diablo at a stoplight. when the light went green i took off briskly and then stomped on it to try and keep up with him... he effortlessly put buslengths on me (obviously). but the beautiful thing is that we were going through a tunnel and i had a solid 10 seconds of aural bliss hearing his engine resonating off of the concrete walls.
still pushing my car hard at 90+ mph i finally caught up with him as he slowed way down to take an exit a few miles up the road. i was staring as i drove by, and he saw me and gave me a nod. i was amazed that a guy in a diablo was cool enough to give the nod to a guy in a sebring... that was a nice experience.
exotics rock.
o-|-<) bryan

A guy in a 355 tried to race me a couple of weeks back. Not really a race (I think he thought he actually had a chance!) but it sounded wonderful!

The thing is Ferrari's as delivered to magazines and what you receive from the dealers are miles apart in term of horepower. That's why Ferrari ban you from performance testing any car they have not “prepared” themselves. They will flatly refuse to lend a magazine a car for instance if you let on that you intend to race it against a TVR...

Unlike Ferraris at least Imprezas all go like stink matching the claimed figures from Suburu...

Ferrari's are lovely cars, lovely to look at, and listen to. But they don't perform as well as the magazines say. I've driven a 355 round Thruxton race track, easily the best handling car I've driven – didn't feel very quick though. I don't really look upon Ferrari's as the ultimate performance cars. They are about beauty and handling to me. For outright (and usable) performance - look elsewhere. Saying that, at least you don't have to wait for the things to warm up before you can get it in 1st gear these days, so they are getting better. The 308 and 328s I've driven were dreadful until they had warmed up!

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